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With OS X 10.11 El Capitan schedule to be released tomorrow (September 30), Ars Technica reminds us of the handy ways to make your own bootable USB drive. And you're in luck, because it's not hard to make one.

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In a new Nature Geoscience paper, published online today, Lujendra Ojha and his colleagues present “smoking gun validation” that liquid water flowing on Mars’ surface formed “recurring slope lineae,” patches of precipitated salt that appear to dribble down Mars’ steep slopes.

"It was like we’d been throwing our money to the mob," Amram says. "As an advertiser we were paying for eyeballs and thought that we were buying views. But in the digital world, you’re just paying for the ad to be served, and there’s no guarantee who will see it, or whether a human will see it at all."

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“I personally am deeply sorry that we have broken the trust of our customers and the public,” Volkswagen Chief Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn said in a statement on Sunday. “We will do everything necessary in order to reverse the damage this has caused.”

The user rights of Canadians are already well-protected. The Canadian Supreme Court has ruled that the Canadian version of fair use – known as fair dealing – is a “user’s right” that should be interpreted in a broad and liberal manner. In other words, the need to balance creator rights and user rights is an integral part of Canadian law.

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Yancey Strickler and Perry Chen announced on Sunday that Kickstarter was reincorporating as a “public benefit corporation,” a legal change they said would ensure that money - or the promise of it - would not corrupt their company’s mission of enabling creative projects to be funded.

"And advertisers have had fifteen years to show self restraint. They've had the chance to not secretly track people, set cookies for their own benefit, insert popunders and popovers and poparounds, and mostly, deliver us ads we actually want to see. Alas, it was probably too much to ask."

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Nilay Patel writes an article describing how iOS 9's support for ad blockers are not actually about "user experience of news" but in fact about "money and power in Silicon Valley", and how media sites like the Verge are just "collateral damage". Right.

Speaking of iOS 9 and ad blocking, Dave Mark over at the Loop provides a list of currently available content blockers approved and in the App Store, as ell as providing brief instructions on how to install/manage them.

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"The Nestle-owned brand is hoping the move to Tumblr will engage it with a younger demographic and open it up to more user-generated content in a way that the traditional website doesn’t allow for." I can see the logic. Why build a custom website and then fight for shares on social media when you can just build your website on a social media platform to begin with.

"ISPs are conduits for the speech of others; they are not delivering their own messages when they connect their customers to the Internet, the FCC argued. Rules against blocking and throttling Internet content thus do not violate the ISPs’ constitutional rights, the FCC said."

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According to a recent British Columbia court decision, the keyword advertising model is legal and there is little to stop competitors from using the ads to attract users to their websites. The case, which pitted Vancouver Community College against Vancouver Career College, provides advertisers with assurances that an aggressive keyword strategy will not lead to legal liability under Canadian trademark law.

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The Node.js team has just put together a final stable release of Node v4.0.0. "New to Node.js, we also have first-class support for ARM processors. Our test suite must be continually passing on ARMv6, ARMv7 and the new 64-bit ARMv8 processors. So Node.js is officially ready for use by hobbyists and ARM server users alike."

The manual is famous for introducing NASA's "Worm" logo, as well as outlining how the logo should be placed on various NASA materials. No formal announcement or press release accompanied the download, so it's not clear what prompted it.